Clinical Lead

Job Summary
Lincolnshire County Council’s Public Health Division is seeking an exceptional Public Health Clinical Lead to join our team at a pivotal time for the organisation and population we serve. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced clinician to provide strategic and professional leadership across the full breadth of Public Health. While a key element of the role is leading our Health Protection and Infection Prevention and Control functions, the post holder will also contribute to wider population health improvement, healthcare public health, commissioning, quality assurance and reducing health inequalities across Lincolnshire. The role will provide clinical expertise across a diverse portfolio including screening and immunisation, sexual health, substance use, healthy lifestyles and our emerging public health priorities. This reflects the broader remit outlined within the role description. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with local authority colleagues, the NHS, UKHSA, integrated care partners, care providers and voluntary sector organisations to improve health outcomes and protect the health of our communities. A unique opportunity ahead of Local Government Reorganisation

Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and expert advice across the full spectrum of Public Health practice, including health improvement, healthcare public health and health protection.
• Support the development of evidence-based approaches to reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for vulnerable populations.
• Contribute to strategic planning, commissioning and service redesign across Public Health priorities.
• Influence system-wide approaches to prevention, early intervention and population health management.
• Support the Public Health contribution to Local Government Reorganisation, ensuring clinical expertise informs future service models and partnership arrangements.
• Champion the use of intelligence, evidence and innovation to improve population health outcomes across Lincolnshire.
• Lead and assure the development, implementation and delivery of clear, robust health protection and community IPC strategies, policies and protocols across multiple organisations.
• Strengthen Health Protection assurance through enhanced use of screening and immunisation intelligence to reduce inequalities in access and uptake.

About us
Lincolnshire County Council, is one of the largest employers in the county. We are an organisation that embraces diversity, innovation and progress. We value our people and want to ensure that we can support you in joining and growing with us. We will view you as an integral member of our community and recognise that your well-being is paramount. To show our appreciation, we’ve crafted a competitive package designed to not only acknowledge your hard work but also foster a healthy work-life balance. From health benefits and retirement plans, we strive to provide a package that supports well-being and financial stability and that meets the diverse needs of our workforce. We want everyone who works with us to feel included and celebrate their uniqueness. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and promoting good relations for both employee and for the people of Lincolnshire. People often say every day is a learning day and at LCC a culture of learning is something we really believe in. We recognise the importance of supporting your learning and development and can offer a variety of different learning opportunities depending on what is right for you and the organisation. This could be through your everyday tasks, through hands-on experience, structured programs, formal qualifications, coaching, or informal learning opportunities.

Details
Date posted: 15 July 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £47,181 to £52,413 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number: F0067-2600058083305
Job locations: 3rd Floor, Lancaster House, 36 Orchard Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1XX, United Kingdom; Lincoln County Offices, Main Building, Newland, Lincoln, LN1 1YL, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities

• 1. Proactively lead the Health Protection Team to ensure effective working relationships, effective prevention and control of infection mechanisms with health care partners, Regulatory Services Partnership and across Council Directorates and mitigate risks to public health using different approaches.
• 2. Lead, design and facilitate the implementation and evaluation of any Infection, Prevention and Control actions required to implement new policies and plans within the legislative framework e.g. via designated projects within the organisation, including leading the review and updating of the borough Infectious Disease Plan and/or Local Outbreak Control Plan. This may include specific plans at any given time, regarding any infectious disease outbreak control plans e.g. COVID-19, Measles, TB or other infectious disease.
• 3. To take the senior leadership of one or more areas of the health protection plan, this may include, but is not limited to appraising and advising on our local strategies and response for care homes, education, testing or any new areas agreed as the pandemic develops, or existing areas of work such as immunisations and communicable diseases and their related strategies, in accordance with need.
• 4. Take leadership responsibility for planning, clinical governance, organising, implementing and evaluating Infection, Prevention and Control programmes, strategies or policy, advocating public health principles and action accordingly with specific groups (and/or universal programmes) to specify and deliver outcomes, within budget and through managing change accordingly to protect and improve health and wellbeing.
• 5. To establish processes and infrastructure to develop workforce capacity (paid and unpaid) to enable and support effective Infection, Prevention and Control responses in at-risk settings. This will include leading, clinical governance and advice, training and overseeing staff to deliver the councils response at scale during a pandemic.
• 6. Actively support the Head of Service and Health Protection Programme Manager to ensure effective contribution at senior council meetings; providing verbal and written reports to Divisional Management Teams, Core Public Health Team, Public Health Boards, Immunisation Steering Groups, Local Outbreak control planning groups, Local Resilience Forums to ensure that effective plans are in place to protect the publics health from incidents and outbreaks.
• 7. Quality assure and audit services, interventions, policies and plans to control risk and improve quality and effectiveness, making recommendations for change/improvement, manage uncertainty and problem solve; reporting these to Public Health DMT and other identified Council and partnership meetings/committees.
• 8. Lead the evaluation of the public health response to a pandemic or infectious disease outbreak for example, pandemic and develop and assist in the implementation of strategies that improve performance; applying clinical knowledge and expertise, research techniques and principles to establish local evidence of effectiveness.
• 9. Ensure that all stakeholders have clear access to specialist Infection, Prevention and Control advice. This includes ensuring the establishment of effective document control systems and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for current Infection, Prevention and Control policies and guidance with particular focus on clinical aspects and governance. Develop and implement standards, protocols and procedures, incorporating national best practice guidance into local delivery systems in relation to Infection, Prevention and Control.
• 10. Line management responsibility of staff, to include people management and associated policy, e.g.: annual leave, absence, recruitment, training, appraisal and development, grievance and disciplinary. This will on occasion include seconded and/or temporary staff involved in designated projects and trainees on short term placement. Responsible for the workload management of the team to include temporary staff/trainees; providing direction, co-ordinating conflicting priorities and supporting care service delivery plans; to ensure the teams are functioning appropriately and that work is disseminated between team members, to ensure operational cover is available to promote services such as outbreak management to residential care settings with appropriate follow up support, as required.
• 11. This role will require a high level of autonomy in the devising and implementation of creative solutions to analyse some of the most intractable health and social care issues facing Lincolnshire. The post requires input across a range of subject areas acting as a resource for stakeholders in providing evidence based information regarding emergency planning, infection, infectious diseases, prevention and control issues, as well as a working knowledge of the frontline delivery of healthcare. The post holder will be expected to remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation, policy, organisational procedure and professional codes of conduct, in order to uphold and continuously influence standards of best practice. Analyse, investigate and interpret complex statistical, analytical and epidemiological queries/issues whilst appraising relevant international, national and regional policy, standards, guidance, research and evidence; to be able to translate and influence local context, to make recommendations and inform decision making on priority setting and service developments.
• 12. The post holder will be required to work autonomously for large periods of time with responsibility and autonomy for delivering Public Health statutory Health Protection responsibilities. The post holder will support the Health Protection Head of Service with responsibility in the delivery of Health Protection related campaigns and activities and will be required to deputise for subject based related occasions within the related areas of emergency planning and infection prevention and control as required. The post will require a high level of discretion often working within the context of major policy and legislative requirements set down by national Government and its departments. The role and the impact of decisions taken will have the potential to have major impacts on the strategic direction of service commissioning and delivery across a wide range of internal and external partners, leading to the management of highly complex, multi-faceted pieces of work often involving more than one organisation at any one time.
• 13. Be responsible for and manage delegated resources, which include specialist equipment for audit inspection and training purposes, IT equipment to support mobile audit and training within health and social care Lincolnshire wide, laptops, tablets and mobile phone for regular use at home. Management of delegated budget, working within financial resources available, including a budget pooled with the NHS for health protection service delivery. Look to continuously improve services in areas of responsibility and identify, where possible, additional value for money and associated savings to ensure Council resources are optimised and utilised effectively and efficiently.
• 14. Must be capable of analysing and presenting complex information in an understandable and compelling manner, often in a contentious context and to a senior audience (Director level and above). Managing relationships is therefore a key skill for the role; success is critically dependant on the ability to develop multiple trust based relationships with a wide variety of individuals, often working on contentious issues. Personal credibility is therefore crucial, to engender trust and respect in order to fulfil objectives. Able to plan and co-ordinate work with other Director Areas to ensure the needs of the organisation are met and effective matrix working arrangements are agreed. Able to negotiate on compelling deadlines and priorities to resolve tension and conflicts that may occur whilst retaining a professional stance. The post holder will work closely with partner organisations, including the negotiation of politically complex and sensitive pieces of work, often required to present to committees and boards regarding the outcomes of work. The post holder will have frequent contact with vulnerable adults and service users through audit inspections of health and social care, requiring emotional intelligence in the ability to listen, influence and negotiate often complex and emotional issues, to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable adult service users.
• 15. As an employee, create a positive image of the Council and of the wider health protection system. Deliver excellent customer service, incorporating the Council's equality and diversity objectives and supporting the council to achieve best practice in all it delivers. Act as a role model to others, helping them to manage uncertainty and to respond positively and creatively to changing expectations. Contribute to the development of individuals across the Council, through coaching, mentoring and motivating staff where appropriate to achieve performance excellence.
• 16. Take personal responsibility for contributing to organisational transformation and changes in ways of working, maximising the benefits and efficiencies for both internal and external customers, including the promotion and use of self service to achieve maximum cost effectiveness.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Adult Nurse, with current NMC registration and specialist knowledge across the range of infection prevention & control and emergency planning.
• Certificate in Infection Prevention & Control.
• Masters level education (or equivalent).
• Management qualification.
• Teaching and assessing qualification Eg: Cert Ed., SliPs or ENB 997/998.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Lincolnshire County Council
Address: 3rd Floor, Lancaster House, 36 Orchard Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1XX, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Public Health Programme Manager
David Clark
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